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MEME ALL THE THINGS!
claimtoken-5131d8ef1e500 “That famous quote: analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog – nobody laughs and the frog dies. Absolutely true, but you still learn a lot
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Kew launches its breathing planet campaign
I wonder if the word Garden is a hinderance. Kew is the plant equivalent of a zoo, yet we use the same word for it as
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My enemy’s enemy…?
Recently a lot of comments on the Bowman vs. Monsanto court case have been in my social media streams. If you’ve not heard about this,
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Plant Identification Skills
Taxonomic education and botany are increasingly neglected in schools and universities, leading to a ‘missed generation’ of adults that cannot identify organisms, especially plants. The ‘taxonomic
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Ethnobotanical Treasures of the Dominican Republic
A quick post to highlight a new video up from Ina Vandebroek of New York Botanical Garden. This is about how a botella, a mix of
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Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney
Do blogs sell books? They’ve sold at least one. I picked up Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney after reading his weblog Gibney on
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DNA tests, horse meat, Richard III and BBC Radio Leicester Drive Time
DNA testing is an important part of our life now – as we have seen with proving that a skeleton in Leicester comes from the body of
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Real education with virtual materials
This paper, just published in the Journal of Biological Education, strikes me as having a lot of potential. The method would also be appropriate for online
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How does a plant get a taste for meat?
One of the reasons carnivorous plants are so popular has to be their weirdness. They turn a lot of assumptions about plants upside down. But how
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Looking pretty leads to female sexual success, not so good for males
Get the paper FREE If you’re a plant who wants to reproduce should you have more flowers? I thought the answer might simply be a
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Plant Mating Systems goes to Free Access in time for the SAAB conference
Normally a year after they’re published issues of Annals of Botany become free to access. There’s a symposium “Pollinators as drivers of plant speciation”
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Proteaceae, Banksia, Macadamia nuts and the Annals of Botany Cover
Our videoblog discusses plants in the family Proteaceae, a well-known Southern hemisphere family with many beautiful and well-known representatives in Africa and Australia. The